10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Of course, I also love birding in Mexico, with its 1,000+ species, and seemingly infinite variety of habitats. My first experience was an easy one: I found a Prickly Pear cactus growing on the roof, and I left it there. It now bears lots of fruit for Blue Mockingbirds and Curve-billed Thrashers. So how do I get my natives?

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Mexico Species Bears Experience 185

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Fred Tavares of the Brazilian team had the following to say of his team’s experience in the Amazon, “There are so many birds. And of course the teams were birding the entire way, nailing down high Andes species like Mountain Caracaras , Andean Flickers and Sword-billed Hummingbirds. A female C**k-of-the-rock.

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Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 237

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Such is the burden that a digiscoping bird blogger bears when he visits the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Florida in January. Grant McCreary of The Birder’s Library , who shared the experience with me, probably has pretty much the same problem. What do you do with hundreds of picture of Purple Gallinules ?

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United States Florida South America Europe 188

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2014

Despite spending my fair share of soggy birding days in the tropics, I hadn’t realized just how much hummingbirds do love the rain until a recent experience at the Catarata del Toro , central Costa Rica. Being hummingbirds, they of course faught with each other, the Coppery-headed Emeralds being particularly nasty.

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Costa Rica Bears Shelters Experience 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep. And, of course, as I do sometimes, I managed to sneak in a bit of birding. How cute is this?

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New York Cooking Chipmunks Owls 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Dunn starts in Alaska with the goal of seeing Rufous Hummingbird at the northern extreme of its migration (which he does with some effort and a few bear sightings) and ends in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, “the end of the world,” with the sighting of a Green-backed Firecrown feeding at a firetree in cold drizzly rain.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

He discusses the process in his BirdCallsRadio interview , commenting on how he brought his extensive knowledge of birds, their behavior and anatomy, to bear on understanding how to position the images. Phil Gregory brings years of field experience to this project. and Sicklebill Safaris.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

If I want my children to be birders, or at least to appreciate birding, I need them to have good experiences doing it with me. So there was more than simple lister anxiety coursing through my body when word of one sitting atop Grandfather Mountain came out, and birders began making plans to head west.

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North Carolina Mountain Lions Otters Lions 145

Animal Person

MAY 12, 2009

Not to be confused with Little Girl, of course. I've written about the much-maligned Muscovy ducks before , and at our old house this time of year I was usually inundated with rescue situations and of course my patio often had images like this. Now I have the drama of the feral cats and of course the greyhounds.

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Geese Ducks Feral Cats Vermont 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

It prompted a lot of questions, many of which I had previously answered by simple supposition and presumption, but which now became highlighted as inadequate in the light of this experience. I changed to a position further up the slope which allowed me to get a better angle on the top of the branch and bear out my supposition.

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San Francisco Maryland Jordan Lifestyle 180

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

But in many cases, Frederick found that the claims of these vaunted but unthinking sources stood in contrast with his own experiences as both a falconer and keen observer of birds. Of course, this fanciful story had been devised to explain the absence of nests in Europe by this Arctic breeder, but Frederick dismissed it as nonsense.

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This would be a night drive, cold, dark, uncomfortable seats, loud engine in the giant 26-seater truck, scanning the brush and the roadside with three or four strong spotlights wrangled by volunteers among the nature-loving tourists, and of course, the headlights of the truck. And, of course, something interesting came along.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s far East, just falling short of reaching the Bering Straits by a laughable 800 kilometres, a fact one individual apparently found too awkward to bear.

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Kazakhstan Europe Russia Asia 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Though the coast of British Columbia, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest, was rich in both, it was appallingly deficient in scientific data. Northern Fulmar, image courtesy of Peter Hodum.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

This small pine tree was very recently demolished by a brown bear. The claw marks on this brown bear’s footprint make you wish you had taken the other kind of canon with you. Of course this book does not aim at being an ID-guide for the tracks of 750+ bird species, which the author points out in the first sentence of the chapter.

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Europe Mammals Animal Birds 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

So, I can tell you about my experiences with all three products. Then, of course, I was dreading putting the feeder back together—so many parts! When placed correctly, these feeders are squirrel-free, though, as the Squirrel Buster brochure makes clear, they can still be attacked by raccoons and bears. At least, feeder birds.

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Squirrels Birds Factory Raccoons 185

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

He requests that after his death his wife prepare a lavish dinner with him as the main course. But recent experiments with chimpanzees suggest that the day may be near when we can ask trained chimpanzees if they want to be eaten for food. This, however, is not our world, so I don’t understand the bearing of the question.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40